NATO’s official statement claimed at the time that the raid on the home led to a “fire fight” against “several insurgents” who were killed, before NATO made a “gruesome discovery” of bound and gagged bodies in a nearby room.

Witnesses at the site reported that one of the people in the compound, a local policeman, shouted “don’t fire, we work for the government” before being gunned down by the invading forces.

Rear Admiral Smith defended the killing of the policeman, however, saying “if you have got an individual stepping out of a compound, and if your assault force is there, that is often the trigger to neutralise (read: kill) the individual. You don’t have to be fired upon to fire back.

Since the incident, all those detained by NATO have been released without charges. In addition, the US has reportedly paid $2,000 to the family for each of the civilians killed in the attack.

"Why do they hate us??" **"Rear Admiral Smith defended the killing of the policeman, however, saying “if you have got an individual stepping out of a compound, and if your assault force is there, that is often the trigger to neutralize (read: kill) the individual. You don’t have to be fired upon to fire back." This is the precise type of psychopathy and egocentricity people hate.. Case closed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What have we become? When we slaughter innocents we are no better than those we cast as so-called terrorists. A state can also be guilty of terrorism. This war in Afghanistan, like the war in Iraq, is unlawful and constitutes "war of aggression" under the WWII Nuremberg Standard. When bombs fall on and turn to rubble rural mud-walled villages and when a door is kicked in during the wee hours of the morning followed by heavily armed soldiers shooting, shouting in unintelligible languages while displaying the laser designators on the bodies of terrified civilians, is this not terror to those on the receiving end? This is absolute madness.

"when a door is kicked in during the wee hours of the morning followed by heavily armed soldiers shooting, shouting in unintelligible languages while displaying the laser designators on the bodies of terrified civilians, is this not terror to those on the receiving end? This is absolute madness. " Just substitute the words "SWAT cops" for "soldiers" in your statement and you have a very accurate description of what American citizens have to endure on a daily basis right here in the good old USA. How is it that otherwise decent men can put on government issued costumes and then assume that they have the right to treat other human beings like they're nothing but vermin to be exterminated? And how is it that "we the people" can tolerate such evil?